First non-work stuff I've made in a long while, so I thought I'd throw up an early WIP. It's for Mapcore's 1024 unit contest - the idea is to build a fully playable HL2DM map inside a 1024 cube. Mine's a bit abstract, as I just started throwing down some brushes to see where it would take me. Turned out to have quite a clash of styles - so I've got a real world industrial building up the top, UT deathmatch arena stylings in the mid-level, and some trees for, you know, decoration :biggrin: Might try and bring things together into a more coherent end product - scrapping the top level as it exists right now would be a good start!



Deadline is Monday, so I dunno if I'll end up finishing it, but hey, that's what this thread is for :wink:

I feel like i havent been doing any real map designing lately

Becuase im working in quake wanting to get something finished for once.

Hey all,

got a few pics here from a WIP , an fy map based around a small trainstation:





The area in the second pic looks bare at the moment, haven't started that area really but it will be the T spawn. I'm hoping to make this so that it doesn't look boxed in, with viewable streets from the area in the first picture.

G.Ballblue, I missed these but the screenshots look excellent. Very nice lighting and snow effects.

Pretty cool, nooba. I agree that this map conveys a more desolate feeling. I think it's not necessarily the snow, but more the fog and greyish colors. A temperate map with dense smoke, fires and colorless debris would feel similar, I think. Although the colorless aspect is probably because we mostly know WWII from monochrome pictures and therefore connects easier with our idea of the war. Oh well. :smile:

http://hlrse.net/vhe/G.Ballblue/mommamesa_uplink.zip

:razz: Requires DivX

oskutin said:
Wow What place! not junk city!!

Not quite sure what you are trying to say there.. but thanks :razz:

AtM said:
Personally, I prefer
cold maps like colmar and jagd to warm maps like argentan. I just think
that the atmosphere is more interesting.

I agreee with you there :smile:

Nooba, I like how the fog works in the cold map. Personally, I prefer cold maps like colmar and jagd to warm maps like argentan. I just think that the atmosphere is more interesting.

:eek: Wow What place! not junk city!!